El 24 de abril tuvo lugar nuestro DÍA DE ACCIÓN COMUNITARIA, os dejamos algunas fotos sobre todas las actividades que se hicieron.

Charla: “Cómo reducir la Huella de Carbono en nuestro día a día”                    

                         Daniel López (Ecologistas en acción)     

Fallo del concurso de Foto-denuncia   

GANADOR : MIGUEL ÁNGEL HERRERA GARCÍA. ALUMNO DE INGLÉS DE B2. 1. 

                                

Proyección de los vídeos de la EOI Cádiz Proyecto “Litter Less”    
Litter less PARTE 1 

PINCHA EN EL ENLACE A NUESTRO CANAL

Litter less PARTE 2
PINCHA AQUÍ

ACTUACIÓN TEATRO-MUSICAL

El dúo Faenza es un grupo artístico- escénico de difusión cultural formado por Carmen Ramos Lozano y Manuel Tomás Márquez Garrido, que han formado parte del circuito de difusión cultural de la Diputación de Cádiz, además de intervenir en circuitos culturales en una gran cantidad de teatros. Entre sus espectáculos se incluyen musicales, óperas, zarzuela… a distintos tipos de público, pero siempre con interés didáctico musical. En esta ocasión contaron con la colaboración de Arantxa Fernández Giles (profesora de la EOI) con formación musical y que en diferentes momentos de su vida ha coqueteado con el mundo del teatro. 

    y para terminar... 

DEGUSTACIÓN GASTRONÓMICA

RETO "0 RESIDUOS"

LE PEDIMOS A NUESTRO ALUMNADO QUE SE TRAJESE SU VASO, PLATO Y CUBIERTO DE CASA PARA INTENTAR PRODUCIR LA MENOR CANTIDAD DE RESIDUOS POSIBLE

Spaghetatta italiana, salchichas alemanas, crêpes francesas y quesos ingleses hicieron las delicias de los presentes. El alumnado podía pedir la comida con la ayuda de este menú donde aparecía el vocabulario, las estructuras y la manera de pronunciarlo en cada uno de los idiomas.

UNA JORNADA MUY AGRADABLE EN LA QUE APRENDIMOS MUCHAS COSAS SOBRE LA EDUCACIÓN MEDIOAMBIENTAL

MUCHAS GRACIAS POR PARTICIPAR 

DÍA DE ACCIÓN COMUNITARIA

¡Hola a tod@s! Ya tenemos fecha para nuestro día de acción comunitaria, dentro de la campaña LITTER LESS (Ensucia menos). Será el día 24 de abril y realizaremos varias actividades para sensibilizar a toda la comunidad educativa sobre cómo podemos evitar nuestro impacto sobre el medio ambiente en nuestras decisiones cotidianas. La EcoEscuela ha planteado el reto "0 residuos" en la desgustación que tendrá lugar para cerrar la jornada. Necesitamos vuestra colaboración: para no generar ningún residuo os pedimos que traigáis vuestro plato, vaso y cubiertos de casa. ¿Aceptáis el reto?
Aquí podéis ver el programa de las jornadas culturales, donde aparecen las actividades que realizaremos el día 24.

NUESTROS CONTENEDORES

CONTENEDORES DE RECICLAJE
En esta entrada queremos hablaros de todos los contenedores que hay en el centro.


PAPEL, CARTÓN Y ENVASES

Se encuentran cerca de las aulas, de la máquina expendedora de café y de comida. Poco a poco el alumnado está aprendiendo a utilizarlos...😅

CONTENEDORES DE PILAS, TAPONES Y MATERIAL ESCOLAR

En la entrada, justo enfrente de la Conserjería podéis reciclar las pilas usadas, los tapones (como podéis ver colaboramos con Seur en proyectos que ayudan a niñ@s que padecen enfermedades raras) y el material escolar. 

Como todo lo que hacemos en el centro, nuestro granito de arena siempre suma para ayudar a proteger el medio ambiente, o eso esperamos. 

¡Hasta la próxima!

¡Hola a tod@s!
Ya tenemos los vídeos de la campaña Litter Less/ Jóvenes Reporteros por el medioambiente. Los podéis ver en nuestro canal de Youtube
LITTER LESS. PART 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykYdO1R1f8E&t=14s
LITTER LESS. PART 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3fY_xYe2go

Realizaremos una proyección para toda la Escuela durante nuestra Jornada de Acción Comunitaria, en el mes de abril.

Managing Household Waste: Reducing, Reusing, Recycling

REDUCING, REUSING, RECYCLING

Name: Laura Rodríguez Álvarez,  B2.1-B

The amount of waste which we generate every day is growing exponentially, because although less children are born, our life expectancy is greater, and in particular countries in the “First World” generate most of the garbage which is damaging our environment. Although we want to revert this huge problem we don’t always do everything we can, and therefore the ozone layer is badly damaged, although fortunately not everything is lost.

One of the problems is that we usually buy too much food, therefore we throw it away when it’s soft. Instead of this a solution is, for instance, if the fruit is too ripe we can make a healthy cake, milkshake or smoothy;  besides, the fruit that is soft is very sweet so our cake doesn’t need any extra sugar. We can also do this with soft vegetables and instead of a cake we could make a healthy vegetable pie.

About the problem of excessive packaging we should avoid buying plastic bottles. Instead of this we should buy in bulk or another option is to buy glass bottles or glass jars which we will reuse. For instance, when we buy fried tomato or olives in glass bottles later we can use them to keep other things or even food to freeze, so we will avoid the typical plastic lunchboxes.

In conclusion, not everything is lost, we can still turn it around, and improve our planet. We only need to take little steps for the change to start to happen. The simple fact of recycling at home is a good first step. For instance, separating organic and inorganic waste, and within this, paper, plastic, tins, etc: separate them for later recycling.

HOUSEHOLD WASTE: PROBLEMS & SOLUTIONS

REDUCING HOUSEHOLD WASTE, by Juana Ruiz B2.1 (B)

Our current society has to deal with serious environmental problems and one of them is the excess of rubbish. Each of us produces an enormous amount of litter daily and if we do not want to end up surrounded by it, we must take action. I would like to give you some advice to improve this situation.

Firstly, we must avoid the excess of packaging when we buy anything, we must always keep this thought in mind in our daily shopping. Did you know there are shops where we can buy bulk, like in the old times? This way you can take your own containers or bags and we will produce less waste in our house and in the world.

Secondly, we must try to give a long life to our electronic devices, appliances and clothes. I wonder if it is really necessary to buy other things when they are broken or unfashionable. Can they be repaired? Is it necessary to change our mobile phone every year?  I think it is important to consider this before making a decision. If we give these items a long life, we will also produce less electronic waste, which is highly polluting. If it is not possible, we must always take them to a recycling centre. The planet will thank us for doing it!!

In conclusion, we must raise awareness about the negative impact of waste on all living creatures in our planet earth. Using things very little and throwing them away is a mistake, so we must try to cut it down. We should be more responsible and thoughtful about our consumption habits and we should always try to recycle our waste. We must not turn our planet into a huge landfill.

HOUSEHOLD WASTE: PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS

                                   ESSAY ON HOUSEHOLD RUBBISH 

                                                                            by Mª Bella Granado Castro, B2-1 (B) Inglés

            The amount of household waste that we produce is increasing. Most food comes in plastic containers, which are taken to huge landfills when we are finished with them.  Landfills are getting full, and this produces soil, air and water pollution as well as a terrible impact on human and animal health. All this is slowly killing the planet, so what can we do to help?

            To begin with, we could recycle old food containers by finding a new use for them. A great way to do it is to make people aware of the importance of recycling. For instance, metal tins can be made into a jar for storing pens and pencils, or as flower pots, rather than just throw them away. This way, people will become more environmentally aware and less rubbish will be taken to landfill sites.

            Another solution could be that local councils provided more facilities to recycle large items. For example, damaged household appliances like cookers and fridges are often just left out in the street. If the local authorities provided especial collections of these items for recycling, the environment would be less polluted.

            Another way to help is to compost our food waste. For example, vegetable peel can be put into the soil in our back gardens, or in pots in our balconies or window sills. This will make better quality soil and enable more plants to grow.

In conclusion, I believe there are a lot of ways to encourage people to recycle more and reduce the amount of rubbish we create. By recycling plastic and metal, and reusing food waste, we can help to make the world a cleaner place for everyone and make our environment safer and cleaner for the future. After all, who wants to be overrun by rubbish?

HEAVY TRAFFIC IN CADIZ CITY CENTRE: SOLUTIONS

HEAVY TRAFFIC IN CADIZ

PROPOSAL Nº1:

We are a group of students of English from the Official School of Languages in Cadiz, which is also an Eco-school. We have been working in class to try to solve the environmental problems of our city and we believe that one of the main problems Cadiz has is the constant increase of heavy traffic in the city centre. We want to propose some possible solutions to improve this situation. We would like to have an eco-friendly city, so each one of us has given different ideas hoping that they could be implemented in Cadiz:

·         Building an overground car park on several floors would be a good idea. Taking into consideration that our city does not have much space, this parking lot could be built on a platform on the sea.

• ·         When the cycle lane is finished giving economic incentives to workers that use bicycles to go to work, as well as providing cheap bike rental services, could be good solutions too. 

• ·         The use of public transport should be promoted by increasing the number and the frequency of buses in the rush hours. It is also necessary to reduce the price of bus cards for residents and students. In addition to this, we think that in order to live in a less polluted city, at least 50% of the buses should run on renewable energy.

• ·         Another way to reduce heavy traffic and pollution in the city could be creating a mobile phone application for “carpooling”, that is, sharing a car between different people. We think this option could be very interesting and economical.

• ·         It would be necessary to build a tram line or to increase the number of trains that stop in all the stations along the way to get to the centre from the new part of the city. This would also imply reducing the price of tickets.

• ·         Finally, another possibility to make Cadiz a more eco-friendly city would be to build a “park-and-ride” area outside the town with continuous free or very cheap shuttle bus services, so that people coming from other towns could always leave their car there and jump on a bus to get into the city centre. That way we would avoid traffic jams and reduce pollution significantly, thus creating a more pleasant city to live, work and shop in.

Obviously, all of this would require a greater involvement of our local authorities, increasing the budget to implement, at least, some of the proposed solutions.

TRABAJO REALIZADO POR:

ISABEL AZNAR; PALOMA BRAZA; BEGOÑA GALLARDO; DOLORES GOMEZ GALLARDO; BELLA GRANADO; JAVIER RINCON; JUANA RUIZ

Nivel: B2.1, grupo B EOI Cádiz

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PROPOSAL Nº 2 (EMAIL TO THE CADIZ TOWN COUNCIL)

Dear Sir/Madam, 

We are writing to express our concern about the greenhouse gases, smog and environmental problems we have in our city. We are a group of students at the Official School of Languages. Ours is an eco-school and we have some proposals to improve the problem of heavy traffic in the city of Cadiz:

• -         Encourage the use of the bicycle by the employees of businesses in the city with a bonus in their salaries. This would be paid to the people who take the bicycle instead of a car or a motorbike to go to work.
• -         Improve public transport by introducing electronic smartcards for travelling, similar to London´s Oyster cards. These would be for young people, students, unemployed people or for everyone, and they would certainly promote the use of public transport.
• -         Create a public hire bicycle system such as “Bicimad” in Madrid, as it would make bikes available to everyone.
  
• -         Decrease the price of tickets in short distance trains because that is the reason why not many people take the train between “Cortadura and Cadiz Central”.
• -         More shuttle bus services between the Campus in Rio San Pedro and Cadiz to cater for students and residents alike
• -         Encourage the use of carpooling with local campaigns promoted by the City Council.
  

We would very grateful if you would consider our proposals.

Yours faithfully,

Miguel Angel Herrera García, Cristina Santos Casas, Antonio Menéndez Olozábal, Alejandro González Iglesias and Ignacio Conte Ortega., B2-1 (B)

CAMPAÑA "NAVIDAD SIN PLÁSTICOS"

Una entrada que llevaba pendiente...

 El 20 de diciembre realizamos una actividad de sensibilización sobre los plásticos y la basura que generamos diariamente: realizamos carteles en los diferentes idiomas, hicimos montañas de plásticos y envases...

Y nuestros alumnos de B1 de francés, Sara y Sergio realizaron una presentación antes de la fiesta de navidad para reflexionar sobre el tema con todo el alumnado presente y presentar la campaña Litter Less "Jóvenes Reporteros por el medio ambiente" que tiene como objetivo denunciar la basura en el entorno de la Bahía de Cádiz.

RECOGIDA DE TAPONES

Añadir leyenda

Gracias a vuestra colaboración en la recogida de tapones que la Fundación Seur propone en nuestra EOI, ayudamos a niños que lo necesitan

CONCURSO FOTO DENUNCIA

¿Te preocupa ver tu ciudad llena de basura? Puedes participar en el consurso de foto-denuncia “Basura y suciedad en nuestra ciudad” y hacer visible el problema. ¡Tienes hasta el 15 de marzo!

BASES CONCURSO_PINCHA AQUÍ

Campaña Jóvenes Reporteros "Litter Less"

Desde principio de curso estamos organizando la participación de nuestra EOI en este concurso a escala internacional. Es un concurso en el que participa alumnado de nuestra escuela que tiene entre 18 y 25 años. El objetivo de esta campaña es concienciar a la comunidad educativa sobre toda la basura que generamos y cómo afecta a nuestro entorno físico y humano. Hemos decidido presentar un vídeo en el que expresamos nuestros sentimientos y emociones cuando vemos nuestra ciudad llena de basura.

El Dossier del Agua

Dossier Agua by Eco Escuela on Scribd

Visita a la Potabilizadora "El Montañés" de Puerto Real

El pasado 11 de mayo, los profesores/as de la Escuela visitamos la Estación de Tratamiento de Agua Potable (ETAP) "El Montañés" de Puerto Real.

En la visita conocimos cuál es el ciclo de tratamiento que sigue el agua desde su origen en el pantano de Los Hurones (en Ubrique) hasta el grifo de nuestras casas.

Cartelería sobre el uso del agua

Este año hemos puesto carteles de concienciación sobre el uso del agua en todos los baños del centro, tanto en los baños para alumnos/as como en los baños para el profesorado.

También hemos puesto, en los tablones del centro, carteles para promover el uso de botellas de agua reutilizables.

Eco-Auditoría del Agua

Estamos realizando una Eco-auditoría dentro nuestro proyecto Eco-Escuela. Se trata de una encuesta con la que detectar las necesidades de nuestro centro en lo que se refiere al uso del agua.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSffoJPHUiJXtjQA5d-HvsuqojXz_it0NWzqrekP4O395QQepQ/viewform

¡No te va a llevar más de 5 minutos!

Hi everyone,

I would like to share with all of you one of my passions "Reusing" also known as "Upcycling".  In other words, it is transforming a useless object or waste into another useful object which is completely different. Using your creativity you can transform them in home decorations, furniture and even art pieces. The main objective of this activity is making useful things, without buying any raw materials.

I started to practice this activity a few years ago because, first of all, I love doing crafts. I believe being able to create items yourself is an enormous satisfaction.

Secondly, as a human being I sometimes wonder whether our planet will be able to stand our current life-style. We are depleting our natural resources as if they were infinite. At the same time we are producing a huge amount of waste day after day. Doing upcycling you will reduce waste and avoid using raw materials. Therefore, you will reduce energy consumption.

Furthemore, the materials that you will use are free, so you don´t have to spend money to create your items.

Some people wonder about what skills they would need to do it. To be honest, you do not need so many. Obviously, you need to be skillfull, but don´t panic because the more you practice, the more skillful you will be.

If you see eye to eye with me about the positive benefits of this activity, don´t hesitate anymore and join me to do this eco-friendly and artistic activity.

In the photo you can see the lamp in my kitchen made with plastic cutlery from a party with friends.

B2 student.

We only have a planet. Keep it alive!

Nowadays the pollution level is increasing alarmingly because people and industries take less care of the environment.

On the one hand, industries are focused on their benefits or how to get more money with less investment, so they do not pay attention to manufacturing with recycling or recyclable materials which are more expensive than conventional ones.

On the other hand, people live in small homes; accordingly, people do not have storage space for different kinds of dump in their home.

Does this mean our planet is condemned? Of course not!! There are people whose lives are dedicated to protecting and saving our planet, but, what do they do or who are they? They are called with several names depending on their life style, however. Today I’d like to introduce people who like doing upcycling.

Upcycling is about providing a second life to products which everyone would consider like waste. For instance, they make wallets from milk cartons or make lamps from plastic spoons. It sounds interesting doesn’t it?

There are several kinds of people who try to keep our planet safe, if you want to meet them and know more about what they do, do not forget to visit our school blog!!

Written by AlmudenaTrigo Garcia student of 5th year official school of languages.

“Recycling activities”

Nowadays, recycling is an important issue because our society is used to consuming everything that is new in the market. As a result, everything they don’t want any more is wasted.

From our school, we can organize some recycling activities, like workshops on handicrafts, so that we can save some raw materials such as paper, cardboard, glass, plastic or metal, reusing them again and again. In addition, water and energy can be saved too because making new products from recycled products is cheaper than making them from raw material. Besides, the last and the most important thing is that waste is reduced in landfills.

In my opinion, we could do three activities. One recycling activity could be to make soap with domestic oil. The students and teachers will take oil which has already been used and we will make soap with it. This soap can be used in the school toilets.

Another activity would be to make cards, bookmarks gift wrappings and carton boxes with recycled paper. They would be used by the students in their classes.

The last activity could be to make containers for recycling paper, plastic or glasses with carton boxes. They would be placed in each class.

In conclusion, the aims of these activities are to provide the school with recycled material and to make people aware of participating in recycling activities.

ISABEL DIAZ MORA  5ºA-Nivel AVANZADO

Ideas for the recycling project in the school

The aim of this report is to present environmental measures for the recycling project of the school.

Recycling facilities

One possibility is to recycle the school products in recycling facilities which would be in every classroom. For example, each student could recycle their pencils, pens, plastic bottles or even notebooks when they have to throw them away.

Students will be able to separate their waste in different bins instead of doing it in a single one.

Papers on both sides

Another idea is to use papers on both sides in order to do homework or take notes. It might be a good idea to make photocopies on both sides too in order to save paper.

Recycling workshops and courses

The final idea is to organize recycling workshops and courses in the school to inform teachers and other students about the importance of recycling. One suggestion is to make some school decorations using recycled materials in the recycling workshop. 

The final recommendation is that you must reuse or recycle your unwanted things in order to reduce waste. Everyone should know the importance of environmentally friendly ideas to save the planet.

B2 Student.

To run an Eco-school,  in addition to the ongoing measures such as  the use of recycled paper in the printer  and the placement of small containers of different colours  for different kinds of rubbish,  there are other ideas to consider.

SOLAR PANELS
With the appropriate aid from the government  or from the CEE,  some solar panels could be installed, taking advantage of the sunny  days in this part of the country. These solar panels  would reduce the cost of power, and would supply  heating and hot water to the building, that is very cold and wet.

FREECYCLING

Another idea could be to choose a day to do free-cycling, that is to say, people would take small pieces of furniture, domestic appliances, clothes,  and so on, which  other people may need. The school would  provide  a space  to make these exchanges.

REDUCE PLASTIC BOTTLES
And  last  but not least, you could replace the water vending machine and have a water fountain where people could  refill  their own bottles and so  reduce the consumption of plastic bottles.
B2 student.

Ideas for the Eco-school Project

The objective of this report is to propose three ideas so as to improve the Eco-school Project.

Solar panels

Our first idea is installing solar panels in order to use sunlight, or solar energy for heating and lighting the school building. This is a good idea because the building is really cold in winter and it wastes a lot of electricity. We could ask the local government for a grant to carry the cost.

Freecycling

We could create a branch of freecycle.org to bring things to the school that we don’t need and can be reused. All kinds of things such as clothes, shoes, furniture and so on can be reused.
 https://www.freecycle.org/about/promovideo

Cleaning beaches and forests

Our final proposal is to form a schoolcleanup group so as to clean some beaches, forests or rivers every weekend. We would work and have fun at the same time.

To sum up, everyone should take part in these activities in order to reduce our carbon footprint.

B2 student.

Ideas for an Eco-School Project

The aim of this report is to present some ideas which can help us to improve the actual situation of our environment by reducing our carbon footprint.

Repair shop

Our first idea is to start up a repair shop at the school so that we could fix our broken items such as little appliances, furniture, electronic devices and the like. This is a good idea because we come from different professions and we could share our knowledge in order to give a second chance to our junk, instead of taking it to the civic amenity site.

Eco-Trekking

The second idea is to promote hiking routes on our beaches and in our mountains so as to collect that litter dropped by unaware people. We recommend this because, apart from the fact that we could help our environment, we could also practise a healthy outdoor activity.

In conclusion, we think these two ideas are so tempting that people will join us in this exciting project.

José Ignacio Rosado Rodríguez.

B2 student.

THE IMPORTANCE OF PROTECTING THE ENVIRONMENT

There are many ways we can produce less waste which have an important and negative impact on the environment. Reducing waste and using environmental measures is essential in order to save our planet.

Firstly, people usually use their own vehicles in order to go to work or go to the university, for example.

No one would argue the fact that a car or a motorbike is more comfortable than public transport. However, this kind of vehicles is very polluting and dangerous for the environment, so if you want to protect your planet you should use public transport or even hybrid vehicles.

Secondly, it is probably true to say that the large companies and industries produce a great amount of waste and gas emissions which damage the environment. In my opinion, this companies and everybody in general should recycle their waste in order to pollute less.

Finally, I am also concerned about some kinds of energies which are terrible for the environment, such as petrol or nuclear energy. I believe that we should use renewable energies like solar energy using solar panel or wind energy using wind turbines.

In conclusion, people should be concerned about environmental problems which have awful consequences on the planet.

B2 student.